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[Captain K]

Finished Seifer regular event.  Fujin and Raijin were surprisingly difficult since I didn't bring mitigation.  Now I'm grinding the first event mission to try and get Squall's RM2 so I can get his RM3.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I have fairly little emotional attachment to FF12, but I generally like more of its cast than most FFs. I think FFX might be the only FF game where I actually like all the playable PCs? FF6 and FF12 have the next highest ratio of likable:total PCs. I think FF4 has the lowest?

I'll do a full 11x pull on FF12 on my JP account just to see if I get a decent option for FF12 synergy. Balthier is sexy enough to warrant that.

[Meeplelard]

Had to blow Mithril on Fuijin/Raijin and Seifer because those fights being after legitimately damaging randoms made them not really do-able in my builds. 

Then fought Fuijin/Raijin in classic story where they were beatable, except that I needed to S/L a lot since Rinoa started the fight with like 20% HP, so if EITHER of them targetted her (which they loved to do I should note) before Selphie gets Curaga off, it's a reset. 


I have determined I hate fighitng Fuijin/Raijin since all poor designs not related to gameplay occur there.  Their sprites are misleading in size such that you try to target them, you'll often get nothing; Fuijin just wouldn't get the targetting indicator until I hit the sprite at least 4 or 5 times and by then, lots of ATB time has gone by.  Adding to that, both have a bunch of battle quotes slowing the fight down, and Raijin has to go into a pose before EVERY SINGLE ACTION and the way he does it, he doesn't just pose and act, he poses, then you wait 2 seconds THEN he acts.  It's seriously a frustrating fight for reasons unrelated to actual difficulty, and I do not look forward to fighting them in Elite Story Mode for that reason...nor when Lunatic Pandora Story drops.

[Veryslightlymad]

Percentage-wise casts I like/have emotional attachment to... hmm.

I honestly think FFXII wins. I have nothing super negative to say about any of the cast. The most negative I have to say is "another character did it better" or "I wish you had more lines", and neither is particularly damning. The flispide is, there's only 6 people, so it's easier to like everyone than a game like FFVI which has 14.

FFVI Might win, but I'm not sure. I guess I don't really dislike any of the cast there, either. Maybe it gets an edge on sheer volume of characters, or my liking different characters much more as I age.

FFX has Lulu and sometimes Wakka for obnoxious. VIII has Irvine/Quistis/Squall. IV has Rosa and a lot of "eh" writing overall. IX has basically its whole cast. V has lolcharacterization. VII I'll withhold judgement on until the remake.

I'd say XII/VI > X >>> IV > VIII >>>>>>>> IX

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Basch event on JP landed today. No character changes, Basch is Auron - (better Knight levels, but worse Samurai, no Support and worse overall stats especially due to no MC2). Bonus battles for Squall's MC2 also land tonight on Global.

In other news, I have three more Greater Holy Orbs and one Greater Dark Orb more than I had half an hour ago.

[Grefter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGoSjIfV08&t=59s

[DjinnAndTonic]

Friday is my ridiculously long commute to work so I decided to do a 3-pull on the ride for fun. Got Irvine's gun and an FF8 protectga hat for five stars! Sweet, but not the SSB weapon or the MT heal bracers I was hoping for. Feeling lucky, I did a pull on the FF5 banner and snagged Gilgamesh's katana, so now he, Sephiroth, Auron, and Cyan are going to see some more play. Also Gilgamesh rocks and you should all be jealous.

On the JP server, I did an 11 pull on FF12 because I like the FF12 cast and snagged Fran's SSB now, my first SSB weapon! Sweet and awesome all around!

And just so Grefter doesn't have to do it:

Get gud at RNG, noob

Ok.

[Grefter]

Friday is my ridiculously long commute to work so I decided to do just one fix

[DjinnAndTonic]

Hmm I guess when you phrase it like that... You're not wrong. I should totally be saving all this fake currency for later!

[Magic Fanatic]

So, who else wants to join the "Gilgamesh is Awesome" club?

Been speeding through Classic for the most part with a few notable exceptions thanks to Gilgamesh existing to be awesome.

Picked up Ricard's MC.  Classic I went in underprepared since it was Classic, and got Mastery by the skin of my teeth against Belias.  Elite...  Well, I still lost three medals to the boss while bringing my A-team, but I was never in any danger of death.  Never even saw the Firaja that terrified me so much after being hit by it in Classic!

Next story stage up is Owzer's Mansion in FF6.  Am I getting anywhere close to caught up?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

That's DU11, so you're two updates away from being entirely caught up. OF COURSE, DU14 shows up somewhere next week, likely Sunday...

[Captain K]

Finished all FF4 Elite dungeons.  Let us never speak of them again.

I think the only dungeon I have left is FF6 Holy Dragon Elite, will be caught up after that.

[Magic Fanatic]

Okay, so.

+ Rush was a joke.  Most threatening boss was Cerberus, with Brothers as a distant second.  Ifrit was a joke, and Diablos was contained by Tauntaliate.  Party was Y'shtola/Lenna/Gilgamesh/Squall/Seifer with a SG RW, and I didn't even need to use the second charge.

++ Fight caused me to S/L twice.  Once because a RW Angel Wing Bolt went to the wrong target, so I didn't kill the boss in time before it killed at one of my characters.  Second time it got a turn before I set up mitigation and killed Gilgamesh too fast.  Third time was like the first, but I remembered to manually target it. Y'shtola/Lenna/Gilgamesh/Squall/Rinoa party with a Rinoa Angel Wing Bolt RW.

+++ Fight was another joke to Master.  Y'shtola/Lenna/Gilgamesh/Squall/Seifer again with a Selphie Trabia's Light RW, with Seifer hanging out with Boost/Magic Lure.  I actually wonder if Magic Lure kind of breaks Edea's AI, since I popped that on Seifer, had Lenna cast Reflect on him...  Edea got like 15 turns.  12 of those turns were spent casting Maelstrom.  One was Blizzaga on Seifer that got reflected, and two were useless status spells.

[Captain K]

+++ Edea uses Maelstrom very frequently in general.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Decided to play with my new Valiant Gun. Irvine + Valiant + FF8 synergy + Advance + Garnet's ATK buff SB (or Boost) + Armor Breakdown = 10 x 6000 damage to any of the bosses in the FF8 EX Boss Rush. Tossed Mako Might on him too so I managed to use this strategy on 3 out of 4 bosses. (Ifrit obviously didn't need it.)

Fenrir would be proud.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

FF8 bonus battles: in which I got mastery while hammered. None of the setups were particularly fancy (damage, mitigation, hitting weakness. Didn't bother with status besides Slow on Edea through Tempo Flurry), but it was functional. One S/L due to being slightly unlucky with Corona targetting, but otherwise no surprises.

[Captain K]

Mastered all Seifer event, and mastered all Elite dungeons in the game.  Now... now... what do I do now...

*puts down phone*

*goes outside*

*blinks in the sunlight*

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

There'll be a Dungeon Update tonight. Have fun.

[Captain K]

Fucking DeNa can't you give me one day off?

[Magic Fanatic]

+++ Edea uses Maelstrom very frequently in general.

Who does she think she is, merely an upgraded version of Sinspawn Ammes?



Been speeding through Classic as much as I'm able.  Enemies threw themselves on Gilgamesh's weapon some more and got me Red XIII's Memory Crystal.  Time of joy.

[Cotigo]

Farmed all day Friday and Saturday, got Power BD to R4 and Break Fever will potentially be R2 by next week or the week after (next week for sure if I can master Hojo). Got Zack up to 80 from 73 during Sundaily today, that should be enough of a boost to guarantee that I'll master Rufus in a bit. I'm also probably going to forgo Sundaily the rest of the day and clear out what's been released of the FF12 event. Almost every single farming day is now more important to me than levelling except Thursday, and I'm too busy that day this week to do anything but farm, so there you have it.

Tangentally related, someone did a long writeup of character rankings in JP on reddit recently, and came to the conclusion that Ramza and Gilgamesh were the best characters, and I am fine with that conclusion. It is nice having a support character that regularly hits the damage cap after de/buffs.

EDIT: Woo-hoo, Rufus mastered. Getting Zack to 80 made it a lot easier, since that boosted Air Strike from 4900 a hit to 5800 (2700 damage increase), and Rufus only got one Mako cannon off after SG wore off thanks to that. I think I could have won previously had I played riskier (Saved a Reraise SB for the middle of the fight, not refreshed SG until after it wore off), but meh that would have been a lot of S/Ls.

For Posterity:

Ramza (Power Break, Armor Break), damage RM
Zack (Indoor Spell, Drain Strike), damage RM
Terra (Dispel, Firaja), Dualcast
Mog (FEVAH, Curaja), Mako Powah
Aeris (Protectga, Curaga), SB gauge increases faster

Gonna do Hojo at some point tonight, not too concerned about beating him or trying for Mastery if it seems impossible though. Same basic setup as Rufus, except taking out Terra and putting in Gilgamesh for Come At Me Bro strats, almost solely for mitigation this time (The extra damage will be nice, but I'm not going to worry about putting on things like Double Hit for it).

EDIT3: Oooor he actually does have medal conditions, all of which require Terra in her same role as before. Mmm, not sure if having Tauntaliate or Zack's SB is more important, fortunately at 1 Stamina I can play around with both. I'll do the same setup as Rufus and see how that goes.

EDIT: Also, after reading up on some posts on Reddit, people are saying there's likely to be some sort of B/S/SB event around new year's, so I may even skip the FF12 banner altogether and just hoard mythril until that. We'll see, maybe it'll be worth doing a 3 pull.

[Magic Fanatic]

Been looking through the various characters that I have and if I have their MCs or not, and I don't have the following:

Red Mage (Giant of Babil Part 2 Elite)
Dragoon (Iifa Tree Elite)
Ranger (Lhusu Mines Elite)
Ninja (Mt. Gagazet Part 2 Elite)
Gladiator (Lunar Subterrane Part 2 Elite)
Warrior of Light (Alexandria Castle Part 3 Elite)
Firion ( Why is he in the list if he doesn't have a MC out yet?)
Maria (Cultist's Tower Part 2 Elite)
Leon (Fifth Ark Part 3 Elite)
Gordon (Mysidian Tower Part 3 Elite)
Luneth (Saronia Catacombs Elite)
Arc (Highbridge Elite)
Refia (Via Purifico Maze Elite)
Edgar (EVENT ONLY)
Sabin (EVENT ONLY)
Sephiroth (EVENT ONLY)
Selphie (EVENT ONLY)
Steiner (Ultima Weapon Elite)
Eiko (EVENT ONLY)
Tidus (EVENT ONLY)
Wakka (EVENT ONLY)
Lightning (EVENT ONLY)


Of this list, Eiko's getting a MC release here on the 25th, and Wakka should be getting one with Lulu's event in a couple of weeks.  Therefore, the priority set in no particular order for the RoR event soon seems to look something like this:

Edgar
Sabin
Selphie
Sephiroth
Tidus
Lightning

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Seph will be reissued again with a MC2 either before RoR or shortly after. Tidus and Lightning both will get reissues in January as well.

[Captain K]

Yeah global skipped the event with Firion's MC, so that is one you should definitely get during RoR because it's unlikely to come through events.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Well, it will DEFINITELY come in the FF2 event six months from now!

Also, there'll likely be a Lucky Draw banner for Black Friday. Save those 25 Mythril.